Global MERS Data

## 
## Attaching package: 'lubridate'
## The following object is masked from 'package:base':
## 
##     date
## 
## Attaching package: 'plotly'
## The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
## 
##     last_plot
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter
## The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
## 
##     layout
## [1] "factor"
## Warning: 5 failed to parse.
## [1] "Date"

This is a plot of the global count of MERS cases by the date of symptom onset:

## Warning: Removed 535 rows containing non-finite values (stat_count).

Now it is in color by country:

## Warning: Removed 535 rows containing non-finite values (stat_count).
## Warning: position_stack requires non-overlapping x intervals

This may also be a useful way to display this data.

## Warning: Removed 535 rows containing non-finite values (stat_count).
## Warning: position_stack requires non-overlapping x intervals

An interactive plot of the MERS data:

## [1] "difftime"
## We recommend that you use the dev version of ggplot2 with `ggplotly()`
## Install it with: `devtools::install_github('hadley/ggplot2')`